L.A. County officials push new sales tax to offset Trump health cuts
L.A. County voters will be asked this June to hike the sales tax rate by a half-cent to soften the blow of federal funding cuts on the region’s public health [...]
Constitutional Softball: Congress Gives Up Its Power of the Purse
The $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act, which has now passed the House and Senate, attempts to push Pete Hegseth to release the full “double-tap” video of the summary execution [...]
Trump Decides to Own the Shutdown
In the past 24 hours, we’ve been treated to a combination of first-term and second-term Trump. On Monday, the president agreed to a meeting with House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries [...]
‘Potentially really bad’: GOP senators and lobbyists say Trump’s big …
Senate Republicans are increasingly convinced that their sweeping legislative package simply cannot pass under current conditions, casting serious doubt on Majority Leader John Thune's (R-S.D.) push to bring the bill [...]
Pressuring Republican Reps to Pressure Trump
I’ve been taking stock of the possible firebreaks against Trump’s illegal marauding. One is the Supreme Court, the ultimate guardian of the rule of law. The high court has belatedly [...]
Amid budget unrest, Idaho legislators advance new bare-bones budgets
Idaho Republican state legislators advanced several bare-bone budgets Friday, in an apparent endorsement of a new budget process playing out in the powerful Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee that has now spilled [...]